Re: Multi-key loop-aes question

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Jari,

Thanks for the suggestion. Does this reduce the security of the
multi-key encryption (storing the key locally with the data)? How would
you compare this with single key encryption with key stored remotely?

Daniel.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jari Ruusu wrote:

<snip>
> You can still use
>
>     ssh user@host cat keyfile | mount -p 0 -o gpgkey=/etc/foo
>
> that uses /etc/foo key file that _is_ stored locally, but if that key file
> is gpg encrypted with password like
>
>     P+zl9O2QYxJZcgMO94+IN9ezfjf/BVQsNEOXajbWRnO2ok/FLQDD8zCsDDyT
>
> that you pipe through ssh to mount. What is the problem with that?
>
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